{"id":1528,"date":"2016-04-26T00:06:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1528-nudi-fairyfloss.html"},"modified":"2016-04-26T01:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T15:19:26","slug":"nudi-fairyfloss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1528-nudi-fairyfloss.html","title":{"rendered":"Nudi Fairyfloss"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2117 --><!-- s9ymdb:2118 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1356-_MG_0680.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s pink and fluffy and tastes great?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe pink spongy mass might look like fairy-floss but that&#8217;s where the similarity ends, unless of course you are a nudibranch.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is the first time I have found this species of nudibranch, <em>Ceratosoma brevicaudatum<\/em>, eating this particular species of sponge. Perhaps that&#8217;s where it gets its pink spots from!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn this image I have used an imaging style called &#8216;close-focus wide-angle&#8217;. Unlike most CFWA images however I have chosen to shoot wide open giving an unusually narrow depth of field for this style.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCFWA is often used to portray a subject in its larger environment however by also using a wide aperture I have separated foreground and background and created a portrait feel.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo back to the nudibranch and its spongy pink lunch on a Rapid Bay jetty pylon, I&#8217;m fairly certain it tastes nothing like fairy-floss.  Though to a nudibranch, maybe it does!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Nudi Fairyfloss&#8217;, 1\/160s f\/2.8 ISO160 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; What&#8217;s pink and fluffy and tastes great? The pink spongy mass might look like fairy-floss but that&#8217;s where the similarity ends, unless of course you are a nudibranch. This is the first time I have found this species of nudibranch, Ceratosoma brevicaudatum, eating this particular species of sponge. Perhaps that&#8217;s where &#8230; <a title=\"Nudi Fairyfloss\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1528-nudi-fairyfloss.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nudi Fairyfloss\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}